19/January/2012
So, I wrote my Congress-critter a nice letter indicating my opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) currently pending before the house. Today via email I got this response:
JOE WILSON
2nd District, South CarolinaASSISTANT MAJORITY WHIPCOMMITTEES:
ARMED SERVICES
Chairman, Personnel Subcommittee
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE
HOUSE POLICY |
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
COUNTIES:
AIKEN*
ALLENDALE
BARNWELL
BEAUFORT
CALHOUN*
HAMPTON
JASPER
LEXINGTON
ORANGEBURG*
RICHLAND*
* parts of |
| January 18, 2012
Mr. John McCrarey
301 [redacted] Dr
Columbia, SC
Dear Mr. McCrarey,
BLANK
It is an honor to serve the people of the Second Congressional District of South Carolina.
If I may ever be of assistance please do not hesitate to contact me.
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Now, he’s the guy who called Obama a liar during the State of the Union speech. And I can appreciate that he says what he thinks. Still, I think I deserve better than a somewhat ambiguous “BLANK”. Was he just trying to be polite?
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15/November/2011
Glenn Reynolds links to this NYTimes column regarding the slippery slope of the ever expanding definition of sexual harassment. Since no one has offered any substantive specifics on just what Cain did or didn’t do, and whether it crossed any legal or moral boundaries, it seems to me this situation is as likely to be political dirty tricks as it is inappropriate behavior.
Having recently retired after 34 years of federal government service, this post brought back memories. We had annual mandatory workshops on “sexual harassment” and “diversity” and sometimes the content was downright Orwellian. My favorite story was the time the diversity instructor told us solemnly that the paper easel he was using for his presentation should not be called a “flip” chart as that term would be considered offensive to people of Filipino origin. Instead, we should call it a “rip chart”. To our credit, several folks immediately burst out laughing. And then we started asking what we should do if called upon to “flip a coin”. Or if we could no longer “flip the bird” when cut off in traffic. In went on in that vein until the flustered diversity expert gave the class an unscheduled coffee break. I guess he was surprised we all flipped out on him by being so flip about such a serious matter.
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09/November/2011
13/June/2011
Well, at least at Lake Carolina elementary. My daughter-in-law shared this gem brought home by her fourth grader:
“A Moo Way to Look at Isms”
Socialism: You have two cows. Give one cow to your neighbor.
Communism: You have two cows. Give both cows to the government, and they may give you some milk.
Fascism: You have two cows. You give all the milk to the government, and the government sells it.
Nazism: You have two cows. The government shoots you and takes both cows.
Anarchism: You have two cows. Keep both cows, shoot the government agent and steal another cow.
Capitalism: You have two cows. Sell one cow and buy a bull.
Good stuff.
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05/November/2010
In 2008 Barack Obama helped elect 255 Democrats to the House.
In 2012 Barack Obama helped elect 240 Republicans to the House.
Glad to see he’s finally getting something right!
Hat Tip: Don Surber
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03/November/2010
Well, it was certainly heartening to see so many scumbag losers Democratic incumbents tossed out on their sorry asses held accountable by the uneducated angry masses American voters.
My favorite amongst these recently unemployed individuals is NC Representative Bob Etheridge. You remember him, don’t you?
Anytime an arrogant ignorant asshole like this is removed from a position of power and authority it’s a good thing. What makes this particular case all the sweeter is that it represents a big victory for new media over the corrupt gatekeepers of the liberal press.
This was also a victory for New Media. As we’ve seen time and again, the same corrupted MSM that endlessly looped the assault on that MoveOn crazy woman at the Rand Paul (I mean, Senator-Elect Rand Paul) event would’ve most certainly ignored the video of Etheridge’s assault like they do most stories that might create a narrative damaging to the left.
But YouTube and these here Inter-Web-Dot-Nets make it possible for truth-tellers to go around the self-appointed MSM Gatekeepers and get the word out. And when something goes viral, as this did, it can have the same effect it would have if the MSM weren’t corrupt and did their jobs honorably.
I don’t want to say that New Media took a scalp with Etheridge, because it’s not about that. It’s about breaking the MSM monopoly and letting the American people decide what information is important and relevant and what isn’t.
The masses are not asses, the MSM knows this, which is why they so desperately want to control the flow of information. The rise of righteous New Media may not be fast enough for some but just take a moment to remember what the media landscape was like just ten years ago — and it’s only going to get better.
Oh yeah, the best is yet to come. The jig is up folks. There is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
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02/November/2010
The president had this to say to Hispanic voters:
“If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies, and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us’ — if they don’t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election — then I think it’s going to be harder. And that’s why I think it’s so important that people focus on voting on November 2nd.”
House Republican Leader John Boehner responded:
In remarks prepared for delivery at an election-eve rally in Cincinnati, Boehner seized on the “enemies” passage: “Ladies and gentlemen, we have a president in the White House who referred to Americans who disagree with him as ‘our enemies.’ … Mr. President, there’s a word for people who have the audacity to speak up in defense of freedom, the Constitution, and the values of limited government that made our country great. We don’t call them ‘enemies.’ We call them ‘patriots.’”
Hell, I don’t know who’s right. Let’s let the ignorant, angry and unwashed voters decide the issue. I’m guessing the patriots will defeat the enemy, but what do I know?
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21/October/2010
Hispanic candidate called anti-Hispanic.
Click the link above for his classic response.
I’ll just say that it is pretty damn scary when common sense values like these are called “extreme”.
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19/October/2010
Not sure which myth they will attempt to debunk–that stimulus created jobs, that Obamacare saves money, or that the President is even remotely competent. Oh wait, those myths have already been debunked!
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18/October/2010
try this:
While the Senate race remains extremely tight, most polls are pointing to a Republican takeover of the House. And as Michael Barone has noted, the shift to the GOP could be the biggest since 1894, let alone 1994. For President Obama, this is a nightmare scenario, with his legislative agenda lying in ruins, and facing a campaign for the repeal of his hugely controversial and costly health care reform law. November 2nd could well be the worst day for America’s Left in more than a decade, signaling the start of another conservative revolution and a firm rejection of Barack Obama’s Big Government agenda.
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13/October/2010
….it’s a little too late.
As a result, we are seeing something unique in our history: an uprising of voters trying in every way possible to roll back an act that was always unpopular, and was passed by means most people think of as borderline legal, and without legitimacy in any sense of the word.
Whether people object to the act or the way it was passed is a moot question, as the answer is “both of them.” And its chances of surviving in the form it was passed in grow less and less every day.
Perhaps Democrats should have spent less time trying to buy and bully their members into stiffing their voters, and more time trying to build up the public’s support.
Perhaps when the Tea Parties began, they should have tried to pre-empt or defuse them, and not dismiss them as racists and “Astroturf.” Perhaps they shouldn’t have listened to liberal bloggers and listened instead to the voters.
But it is not too soon to say “I told you so!”
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12/October/2010
Has anyone any history ever run this fast?
Man oh man, can you believe this guy is a democrat?
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04/October/2010
Ah, is baby O having a bad day first term?
Don’t worry, it will be over soon. Not soon enough, but soon.
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28/September/2010
18/September/2010
09/September/2010
From my favorite cartoonist, Michael Rameriz:
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31/August/2010
And this one says: We are screwed. So very screwed.
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…let me just say that at least I’m not a liberal scoundrel. Pardon my redundancy. Charles Krauthammer nails it:
Liberalism under siege is an ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance has, in only 19 months, turned the predicted 40-year liberal ascendancy (James Carville) into a full retreat. Ah, the people, the little people, the small-town people, the “bitter” people, as Barack Obama in an unguarded moment once memorably called them, clinging “to guns or religion or” - this part is less remembered - “antipathy toward people who aren’t like them.”
Do yourself a favor and read the whole thing.
And while we on the subject, I suggest this as well.
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25/August/2010
Talk about your summertime blues. Obama’s “recovery summer” is driving the economy to unprecedented depths. So bad people are talking about when Herbert Hoover ran things back in 1929.
How bad? The housing market’s worst-on-record June for new construction was followed by its worst-on-record July. In each case, the year-over-year decline from 2009, when what I have been calling the POR (Pelosi-Obama-Reid economy since the middle of 2008 supposedly hit its trough, was about 10%. In what are usually two of the best months of the year for builders, in a nation with almost 130 million housing units, construction began on barely over 100,000 new ones. That’s about 65% lower than the 1959-2007 average for the same two months.
An economist quoted by the Associated Press on August 19 described the construction situation for office buildings, malls, and hotels in three words: “Dead, dead, dead.”
Send in the clowns.
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30/July/2010
